Canadian Register of Marine Species - Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

RAS taxon details

Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

AphiaID

22849 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22849)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Ascaris spiculigera Rudolphi, 1809 accepted as Contracaecum spiculigerum (Rudolphi, 1809) Railliet & Henry, 1912 accepted as Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich, 1964 (type by original designation)

Parent

Contracaecinae Mozgovoi & Shakhmatova, 1971

Original name

Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

Direct children (9)

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Species Contracaecum himeu Yamaguti, 1941
Species Contracaecum mirounga Nikolskij, 1974
Species Contracaecum osculatum (Rudolphi, 1802) Baylis, 1920
Species Contracaecum radiatum (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920
Species Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich, 1964
Species Contracaecum umiu Yamaguti, 1941
Species Contracaecum antarcticum Johnston, 1937 accepted as Contracaecum osculatum (Rudolphi, 1802) Baylis, 1920
Species Contracaecum falcigerum (Railliet & Henry, 1907) Baylis, 1920 accepted as Contracaecum radiatum (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920 (Synonym)
Species Contracaecum spiculigerum (Rudolphi, 1809) Railliet & Henry, 1912 accepted as Contracaecum rudolphii Hartwich, 1964 (Synonym - renamed rudolphii)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22849 on 2025-05-29

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22849 on 2025-05-29

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gibson, David

2017-05-12 10:05:35Z

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Gibson, David

2022-06-17 20:07:12Z

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Gibson, David

2024-01-19 07:04:16Z

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Holovachov, Oleksandr

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taxonomy source Mosgovoy, A.A. (1953). Ascaridata of animals and man and the diseases caused by them. Second volume. Osnovy nematodologii. Volume 2, 616 pp. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Garbin, L. E.; Diaz, J. I.; Servián, A.; Fusaro, B.; Navone, G. T. (2023). The genus Contracaecum Raillet & Henry (Nematoda: Anisakidae): host and geographical distribution on Neotropical and Antarctic species. Zootaxa. 5256(1): 43-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.3 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru. Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. Neotropical Helminthology. 10(2), jul-dic: 301-375. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Anderson, R. C.; Chabaud, A. G.; Willmott, S. (1974). CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. i-x. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Contracaecum)
To Genbank
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (293 records)
To ITIS